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Digital Strategy Leadership School improvement

18 August, 2025

AI in schools: Between Hope and Hype – A Practical Strategy

Walk into any school staffroom or boardroom today and the conversation about AI will be mixed. Some colleagues may roll their eyes at the latest “game-changing” technology, already bracing themselves…

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Leadership School improvement

14 August, 2025

Cakeism and Car Salesmanship: The Hidden Cost of Over-Promising in Schools

This piece is written to prompt reflection. School leadership is complex, high-stakes work, often carried out under intense scrutiny and pressure to deliver more with less. The temptation to promise…

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Leadership School improvement

3 July, 2025

Latency and Leadership: Why Fast Talk Isn’t Always Strategic

In communication theory, latency refers to the time between stimulus and response. Some people respond quickly: we might call them low-latency communicators. They think aloud, process in real time, and…

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Digital Strategy Leadership School improvement

24 June, 2025

AI, Coding, and the Myth of Future-Proof Education

Back in 2012, following the launch of one of the very first 1-to-1 tablet programmes in a UK school, a parent approached me at the Open Morning event and said,…

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Digital Strategy Leadership School improvement

23 June, 2025

The Fire We’ve Lit

I am not sure I subscribe to the notion that history always repeats itself, but it certainly seems to have a rhythm. I’m (perhaps clearly) not a historian, but it…

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Digital Strategy Leadership School improvement

18 June, 2025

The Wars We Don’t See Coming

In geopolitics, it’s often said that generals are always preparing to fight the last war. One of the most infamous examples was the Maginot line in Eastern France: a vast…

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